Gut Check: Everyone Needs to Do It
I recently renovated my home office. What a project. Just getting ready took a full week. I moved everything out and committed to purging and not bringing anything back in that I didn’t use or love. Sort of a Konmari approach. It was a journey back over my 11 years...
Stay Close to the Need
One of the things that I’ve appreciated about Richard over the years, when he talks to fundraisers, is that he’s always stressing to you the importance of “staying close to the need.” I can say, without any hyperbole, that when Richard is speaking at a conference or...
Why are Donor Passions and Interests So Important?
First in a Series: How to Identify Donor Passions and Interests We’ve been getting a lot of questions about the role of passions and interests in major and planned gift fundraising and how to identify and use them. So in the next four blog posts, I’m going to cover:...
Getting Out of the Mundane
Four days a week at 5am I swim laps for exercise. I’ve been doing this for over two years. To be honest, it’s incredibly boring. I swim 60 laps of 50 meters. You’re basically all alone for an hour going back and forth, back and forth. While I know it’s great exercise...TOP RATED PODCAST
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